Tamara Ruppart
Tamara Ruppart is an award winning director and producer. Originally from New York City, she has worked as a director, producer and actor in both theater and film.
- Stage manager for Broadway’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
- After moving to LA, she was crew on over 100 episodes of network television.
- Film/TV directing credit include RISING SUN, RISING SOUL (doc), Japanese-language PATH OF DREAMS (short), and Season 1 (14 episodes) of KOOL SCHOOL.
- PATH OF DREAMS has won/been nominated for 17 awards, including Best Short and the Award of Excellence (Winter Film Awards, NYC), Best Short (LA WIFF), adn the Director’s Choice Award (Cinema on the Bayou).
- Theater directing credits include FEAST OF FOOLS (World Premiere), EXTINCTION (World Premiere), two productions of KOKORO (TRUE HEART), and numerous productions for USC’s School of Dramatic Arts (Adjunct Professor).
- She recently mounted the Los Angeles production of BROKEN STORY for New York’s White Horse Theater Company.
- Tamara studied digital filmmaking at New York Film Academy in LA, received an MFA in Directing from The New School for Drama, and a BA in Theater from Davidson College. https://tamararuppart.com
Aaron Woolfolk
An award-winning screenwriter and director, Aaron Woolfolk was born and raised in Oakland, California. His accomplishments include:
- THE HARIYAMA BRIDGE: Wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning T-Joy Co./Toei Company feature film.
- BRONZEVILLE: Co-writer of an Ovation Award-nominated play.
- FAMILY LINE, RENAISSANCE MAN, THERE’S SOMETHING GOING ON WITH SAM. Writer and director for the podcast anthology series Earbud Theater.
- RAGE! Aaron’s first film won a Directors Guild of America award.
- EKI (THE STATION) and KUROI HITSUJI (BLACK SHEEP), and NICO’s SAMPAGUITA are his shorts that won several awards and screened internationally.
- He was a Walt Disney Studios/ABC Entertainment Writing Fellow.
- Appeared in The Smithsonian Institution, the Toronto International Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, Japan Society, and other prestigious showcases.
He graduated with degrees in both Ethnic Studies and Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, and with an MFA in Film from Columbia University.
Kurt Davis
Kurt Davis, is a technology entrepreneur, well-being fan, and an aspiring social impact worker. The first 20-years of his career were spent between Silicon Valley and Asia, working with technology startups in finance and business development roles.
In 2017, he took off time and traveled to Africa to learn about the continent. It was an inspirational experience beyond any traveling he had done before.
During the pandemic, he launched our Ultimate Well-Being program and published a short 10,000-word e-book called The Isolation Survival Guide. He also finished his first book called Finding Soul: From Silicon Valley to Africa. And recently published another book about startup sales and business development entitled Navigate to the Lighthouse: A Silicon Valley Guide to Executing Global Deals. Originally from South Carolina, he’s a graduate of Davidson College and Duke Fuqua School of Business.
Finding Soul
Finding Soul tells the story of two people from different backgrounds who meet in a refugee camp and form an unlikely friendship. As they navigate threats from the past that imperil their shared mission and endanger their lives, they must confront what it truly means to try to make the world a better place.
We R Framily
Families aren't built on bloodlines, they are often formed naturally or chosen. This story describes how one person decided to step in and create a family when she saw another in a time of crisis.
Japan Concepts
We are working on a few concepts related to Japan. One is about youth baseball, comparing it to the way baseball is played in the USA. Another is a Japanese comedic - drama about a foreigner who gets involved with the yakuza by accident.